Masaaki Miyamaki
Masaaki Miyasako "Living in the Wild" Exhibition
Friday, November 1, 2024 - Sunday, November 10, 2024
Japanese painter Masaaki Miyasako was born in Shimane Prefecture in 1951. He graduated from the Department of Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts and completed a graduate course in Cultural Property Preservation and Restoration Techniques (Japanese Painting). He taught at Tokyo University of the Arts and has won numerous awards at exhibitions such as the Inten Exhibition.
He has been observing nature and human activities from a unique perspective, and has been painting them using the classical technique of reverse coloring (coloring from the back of the painting). "When you look up "ura" in a Japanese kanji dictionary, "heart" comes up. Painting with the effect of depth, as if it is seeping out from the back, to convey spirituality is a characteristic of Japanese culture." Miyamako has further developed this traditional Japanese painting technique of reverse coloring, which began in the Heian period. In the many overlapping layers, the colors that seep out from the back and the colors that seep in from the surface blend together, interweaving the past and the present. Miyamako's points, lines, and colors can be said to be a deep, high, never-ending journey, like a "spiral." At this Ippodo exhibition, Miyamako Masaaki, who started out by painting flowers, has returned to his roots and will be showcasing his floral works.
Exhibition
Exhibition view
Born in the fields, but still living in them. Flowers and plants are the starting point of my paintings.
Then, adding the experiences and thoughts gained from the landscapes and people that I grew up with,
The energy created there is then gradually converted into height.
The mathematics contained in flowers and plants is linked to the spiral and synchronized with it as it is drawn.
Masaaki Miyamaki
Miyasako Masaaki
Masaaki Miyamaki
[Brief biography]
Born in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture in 1951
1981 Completed Japanese Painting, Conservation and Restoration Technology, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
1988 Tokyo Central Museum of Art Japanese Painting Grand Prize Exhibition "Nice to Me" Award for Excellence
1991: Received the Encouragement Award and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Award for "Fuuga" at the 46th Spring Inten Exhibition, and the Encouragement Award for "Fuuga" at the 76th revived Inten Exhibition
1993: Received the 12th Japan Art Academy Scholarship Mae Seison Prize, and the 78th Inten Exhibition "Amayota" Japan Art Academy Prize
1999: 84th Inten Exhibition "Well-Tempered Clavier" won the Minister of Education Award
2000 Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Cultural Properties Conservation, Japanese Painting Professor
2017: Retired from Tokyo University of the Arts. Solo exhibition "Masaaki Miyasako Exhibition - Reading Between the Lines"
2021 “Masaaki Miyamai Exhibition - Different Times and Same Pictures” Ginza Ichihodo
2023 Solo exhibition “Confusion” (Ippodo New York)